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Algiers · Beat 116 · permalink

Living room

37:39–38:12 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4537:45Frame at 38:0238:02

Play from 37:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 270–271. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing light shirt and tie visible, audible
  • woman, mid-20s, dark hair, wearing light blouse and dark skirt visible
Seen happening
  • man and woman stand facing each other in a room [frame:1]
  • man looks down at object in his hands while woman stands behind him [frame:2]
Also said
“Shout at me, hurt me, but don't treat me as if I'm not here.” 38:02 · “Oh, I know you're here. No, you don't.” 38:06
Seen
lamp, sculpture, cityscape through window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, emotionally charged; themes: emotional conflict, miscommunication, romantic tension; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man and a woman are in a room with a view of a city; the man speaks while the woman stands nearby. The transcript shows them arguing about emotions and being ignored.

“headache to ask so many questions? No. Why, have you got a headache? Oh, no, I'm thinking.” 37:40 · “Well, that's sure to give you a headache. I don't think with my head, but with my heart.” 37:48 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Algiers (1938) at 37:45 (passage 37:39–38:12); US record: No renewal found

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